Thursday, January 17, 2013

If you watched college football, you knew. And how could you not? Every Notre Dame game, commercial, station break, holiday promo and car ad on NBC mentioned the tragic story of Irish linebacker Manti Te'o's girlfriend who had tragically died of leukemia at the beginning of the season just more than a week before Denard Robinson's Heisman hopes died in South Bend.

It was one of the most touching, moving stories of the 2012 season.

Until yesterday.

That's when the college football world was rocked with the news that Te'o's girlfriend did not in fact die -- because she did not in fact exist. As Deadspin first reported it was all an elaborate hoax: There never was a Lennay... Keku... Kooky... Kockamamie.

Of course, we here at the MZone got absolutely nothing done from the moment we learned about the story, tweeting away the rest of the day. So, in case you missed 'em, below are a few your perusal. And if you'd like to follow us on Twitter, we can be found @MZoneBlog.

as for ND? It’s sorta like the scene in the original Men In Black movie, the first time Tommy Lee Jones shows Will Smith how to use the memory “neutralizer”? Smith’s character looks at him and says “And that weak-ass story's the best you can come up with?”

ND & Teo had a month to prepare for this “outing” and the story they came up w/ has more holes in that ND’s D line in the BCS game.

Well... now i'm not getting anything done. i will have to go back and reread the story because there is just too much to take in. So he met someone in person, one time, and then had an online relationship? But he didn't know it was a hoax? It can happen to anyone, really.. but then even if the young man didn't know what was going on, what ever happened to fact checking by all these news organizations? Maybe the South Bend paper didn't do any research but SI?

Yes Ramona, this is the state of Notre Dame today. Sad.(and then this off the ESPN comment boards:)These Te'o jokes are very funny but shouldn't we all reflect and remember that a person who never existed is dead?

so, son (who attends tsio) went to ND-tsio hockey game Friday night. tsio was up in last 2 minutes & ND pulls their goalie. tsio student section jumps up, points to empty net, and begins a chant of "T'eo's girlfriend".

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